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Masters of Tonewood
The wood used by master craftsmen to create many of the world's legendary stringed instruments-violins and cellos, mandolins and guitars-comes from seven near-mythic European …
In the True Blue's Wake
In 1759, William Preston purchased sixteen enslaved Africans brought to America aboard the True Blue, an English slave ship. Over the next century, the Preston family enslaved more …
Voices from Beyond
There was much uncertainty about how voice related to body in the early eighteenth century, and this became a major subject of scientific and cultural interest. In Voices from …
Sex and Sects
With a revolution behind them, a continent before them, and the First Amendment protecting them, religio-sexual pioneers in antebellum America were free to strike out on their own, …
Strange Brethren
In the sixteenth century, German cities and territories welcomed thousands of refugees fleeing the religious persecution sparked by the Reformation. As Strange Brethren reveals, …
Cyclical City
As cities evolve and resources shift with time, spaces within those cities are often left fallow and abandoned. Cyclical City tells the stories behind these sites, from …
Botanical Entanglements
To this day, women face barriers in entering scientific professions, and in earlier eras the challenges were greater still. But in Botanical Entanglements, Anna Sagal reveals how …
Sustainability and Privilege
Social design-the practice of designing for poverty relief-is one of the most popular fields in contemporary architecture. Its advocates, focusing on the architect's creativity and …
Princess of Albemarle
At the turn of the twentieth century, Amelie Rives was one of the most famous women in America. A member of Virginia's First Families-and granddaughter of a U.S. senator, she …
From Independence to the U.S. Constitution
The "e;Critical Period"e; of American history-the years between the end of the American Revolution in 1783 and the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1789-was either …
Music and Urban Life in Baroque Germany
Music and Urban Life in Baroque Germany offers a new narrative of Baroque music, accessible to non-music specialists, in which Tanya Kevorkian defines the era in terms of social …
Orienting Virtue
What does it mean for a nation and its citizens to be virtuous? The term "e;virtue"e; is ubiquitous in eighteenth-century British literature, but its definition is more …